106 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



ground feed there may be added a little fine 

 ground bonemeal, the steamed bone or some 

 odorless product to be chosen of course. There 

 is small danger of overfeeding these stock 

 lambs in their, infancy ; they will the earlier go 

 afield and learn there to seek their subsistence 

 in the form of grass and herbage. Com should 

 not be fed to them, neither to the ewe lambs 

 nor the ram lambs, for com mainly makes fat 

 and fat impedes vital functions rather than 

 helps. The ram lambs developed on com are 

 slow, sluggish, early losing .their usefulness ; 

 the ewes developed on corn are uncertain 

 breeders and often poor milkers. To develop 

 bone and muscle and stamina in these stock 

 lambs should be the aim and this is accom- 

 plished by feeding foods rich in bone and 

 muscle-making materials, of which wheat bran 

 is easily among the first and oats come next. 

 They should have abundant chance of exercise 

 too, which may be denied somewhat to the 

 lambs that are to go fat to an early market. 

 Then there should be constant watchfulness to 

 avoid infection from parasites and if this is 

 done the shepherd will have abundant reason 

 to congratulate himself upon the splendid 

 growth of his stock lambs. 



FEEDING FOE THE MARKET. 



Slipposing now the lamb crop is mostly to 

 go fat to market as soon as ripe. We will 

 assume that they have been bom in winter, 

 which is the proper season for all lambs to be 

 born on farms, unless one can get them iu the 



